Advanced Studies in Nursing Education: Career Outlook

• FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONERS EARN AN AVERAGE SALARY OF $128,141 AND CAN EXPECT 52% JOB GROWTH BY 2030^1,2
• AS OF 2016, 22 STATES AND WASHINGTON, D.C., ALLOW NURSE PRACTITIONERS TO PRACTICE WITHOUT PHYSICIAN OVERSIGHT³
• 47% OF NURSE DIRECTORS EARN $120,000–$159,000 ANNUALLY⁴
• NURSE EDUCATORS EARN AN AVERAGE OF $82,040 ANNUALLY AND ARE URGENTLY NEEDED TO FILL THE 7.9% VACANCY RATE DUE TO LACK OF QUALIFIED CANDIDATES⁵

Utica University’s three online master’s degrees and post-master’s certificates in nursing empower you to take advanced nursing roles in family practice, leadership, and education—roles with a projected growth rate of up to 52 percent by 2030 and salaries that surpass six figures².

Key Skills Employers Need

• Analyze, design, implement, and evaluate nursing care.
• Demonstrate leadership when you initiate, maintain, and exhibit skills in care coordination, delegation, and conflict resolution strategies.
• Promote safe, high-quality care through your ability to monitor, analyze, and prioritize outcomes that need to be improved for individuals, families, communities, and clinical populations.
• Use critical reflection to translate evidence and integrate scholarship into advanced nursing practice.

• Incorporate current technologies to deliver and coordinate care across multiple settings.
• Promote health, help shape the health-delivery system, and advance values like social justice through policy processes and advocacy.
• Actively collaborate with other health professionals to improve care across systems.

• Design and ensure the delivery of clinical prevention interventions and population-based care that promotes health, reduces the risk of chronic illness, and prevents disease.
• Facilitate commitment to a culture of nursing excellence through lifelong personal and professional development.
• Integrate the arts and sciences, including leadership and ethical principles, with nursing science as a foundation for decision-making within diverse situations, settings, and communities resulting in safe patient care, quality outcomes, and health promotion.

• Use critical reflection, innovation, and inter-professional collaboration to promote lifelong learning and continual improvement, integrate current evidence, and inform policy.
• Incorporate current technologies to augment professional practice and scholarship.